|
GotSteel -> RE: Help me understand (6/22/2013 7:05:30 AM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt
When you, the monkeys and rats in the studies, and the machines used to measure blood flow in women's genitalia become actual human females, we'll give this another go-round. Til then, pffft.
quote:
ORIGINAL: same link
It’s long been believed that women need to feel emotionally connected in order to feel attracted, to want sex. But a recent study by sexologist Meredith Chivers shows that when it comes to desire, women are as visually stimulated and more easily turned on than men.
A group of straight women were hooked up to a device that measures genital blood flow and listened to a series of tapes in which pornographic scenarios were described: couplings between men and women, women and women, strangers. The subjects reported feeling most aroused by sex between people in long-term relationships, but the machines reported the opposite — blood pulsed faster during sex between strangers.
These findings tracked with another study in which women watched both gay and straight porn and were aroused by every conceivable scenario, while straight men were aroused only by women, gay men only by men. Chivers theorizes that the gap between what women self-report and what actually happens to them physiologically is a byproduct of socialization — that women don’t feel as much permission to be as open as men do. Her colleague Terri Fisher at Ohio State agrees. “Being a human who is sexual, who is allowed to be sexual, is a freedom accorded by society much more readily to males than to females,” she says in the book.
This is exactly what you're talking about and even if your personal sample of 1 doesn't match you must admit that the study has a bigger sample size. Heck there are multiple studies empirically demonstrating that female sexuality is somewhat different than the party line.
|
|
|
|
